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Article: NASA RESPONSE TO AVIATION WEEK AND SPACE TECHNOLOGY ARTICLE
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- December 23, 2008
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NASA issued the following press release:
NASA recently submitted the following response to Aviation Week:
Unfortunately, Aviation Week's recent article of Dec. 21, 2008, entitled "Bush Administration Nixed NASA's U.S.-China Cooperation Idea," is inaccurate and misleading.
As an initial matter, NASA has never asked the White House for a cooperative mission such as the one described in the article. The fact is that the White House has been very supportive of a deliberate and careful establishment of relations between NASA and the China National Space Administration (CNSA) over the past two years. As a result, NASA commenced working group discussions with CNSA representatives on Earth and ...